Are you tired of checking multiple accounts every time you check your email? Did you know you could check your Gmail and Hotmail accounts right from Yahoo! Mail?
With our external accounts feature you can pull your emails from any service that supports the POP protocol into Yahoo!. This functionality has been part of Yahoo! Mail for some time already, but we’ve recently added the ability to POP in your accounts from services that only allow SSL connections. If you tried setting this up in the past and were frustrated in your attempts, give it another try. If you haven’t tried this yet and would like to see all your emails in one place, we encourage you to set this up and make Yahoo! your one stop for email.
To set this up, go into Mail Options and click on “Accounts”. Then click “Add Account” and specify the POP server for the respective service. If the email provider only supports SSL connections make sure to change the port number to 995. See the screenshots below:
As always, tell us about your experience. We’d love your feedback.
If I have 3 yahoo email accounts (for different purposes), can I link them and read all the mail from one log-in like I can in hotmail?
YES VERY GOOD I LIKE TO TRY THANK YOU JOHN.ELLIS
My reason for using Yahoo Mail: it has simply the best webmail interface. I could not find anything better.
I really like in Yahoo Mail:
- no conversation view
- move to next mail (not to index) when deleting a mail
Conversation View is irritating. Move to index when deleting a mail wastes a lot of time (i receive around 80 mails a day).
IMAP would be nice for smartphone use, but m.yahoo.com is really good, too.
This article really paints a SAD picture. You just highlighted your competitors best feature which Yahoo lacks.
Come on Yahoo – you can see from all these comments (if you actually take note of them) that people are screaming for IMAP – at least give it to Yahoo Mail Plus members. We pay for a service but don’t receive too many benefits. All other mail providers have it as standard so why not yourselves.
To those asking for POP it is supported by Yahoo for free BUT only to those with a non US account (ie co.uk or .com.au or .com.ca etc). Anyone with a US account (ending in .com) need to use mail plus and pay for it.
Again Yahoo, why the disparity. I am based in the UK and Australia yet I setup my yahoo account with a .com address when Yahoo first started and I am being penalised for all these years of service as I have a .com address even tough I am not a US user.
IMAP and free POP for US accounts are needed by these comments otherwise we will see it that you are not listening to your customers and are falling way behind other providers. More and more people will switch!
at the first time i got hotmail but it seems to be no longer as i decide to chage to yahoo mail as my sis says that yahoo is more BETTER but i need to sign in to hotmail because i use it for half a month!
I have the feeling that Yahoo has no idea how to implement Desktop IMAP like GMail and AOL do…
It really is disappointing… Want to know why I barely use Yahoo Mail anymore for anything but a spam catcher? This is why….
I can’t think of a single reason to use Yahoo Mail, and as long as you don’t have Desktop IMAP support on par with GMail/AOL, I won’t recommend Yahoo Mail to anyone… and that’s a promise.
omg this is so awesome i love it i dont even have to open a new tab to check gmail
Why should I changet to Yahoo? In the past I useed Yahoo very likely. I could synchronize my addressbook, calendar, task and notes with Outlook for several years. Perfect for my paid Yahoo Plus account. The several changes are done. First the design was changed. It was changed to require more bandwith and more traffic just to have a different look. To bad for slow connection when traveling. The the synchronisation was changed, now the synchronisation is gone completely. The new Yahoo! Sync beta does only sync adress and calendar from description. But in real it does nothing as the download is corrupt. So customers have to switch to different providers to get features they loved from Yahoo in the past.
Can you explain a single reason to switch back to Yahoo?
Yeah, sure. POP your mail into Yahoo. Note that Hotmail and Gmail ALLOW POP out, but Yahoo….does not. So once you get it there, it’s stuck there. Nice.
It is superb.
Why should people bring Gmail/hotmail to yahoo? Do you think yahoo mail is so great? I usually forwarded my emails from Gmail to Yahoo as a backup. But one day, I received an email from a website with a webpage similar to my bank, which asked me to confirm my email address. I put in my Gmail ID and then realized that it was a spam. For testing purpose, I went to Ymail and put in Ymail ID into the link. You know what? From that day, I receive over 100 spams in Ymail everyday and most of them are in Inbox. I try to use the anti-spam function in Ymail to block those junk addresses, but it is almost useless. I still receive spams from addresses I have ‘blocked’! On the other hand, I received a few junk mails in Gmail in the first two days, then I haven’t received any after I reported them as spam. Now, I just login Ymail once a month to see how many junks are there, this morning the number is 3493.
Why not turn allow IMAP as well? It is vastly superior to POP when checking mail from many locations. While you are at it, allow IMAP access to Yahoo! Mail as well! Pretty please?
Hi Herbert
A bit off-topic so apologies, but I don’t know where to go on this one. Of the 30 or so spam emails I get every day, about 30% are getting into my inbox. There was a time when your spam filter was rather good, but it seems to have got a lot worse over the last year or so. Any idea what the problem is? A hit rate of only 70% is pretty poor!
David
Getting my Gmail account through Yahoo sounds great. But what I really wish was for Yahoo Mail to have the threaded conversation-like style (where reply messages are interwoven with received messages) like Gmail. I also wish that Yahoo Mail have the option to set up a smart Priority Inbox. And I wish that Yahoo Mail had labels like Gmail. Why hasn’t Yahoo done any of these changes or at least offered them? I’d like them. After all these were the reasons I got a Gmail account; I’d rather have these features in Yahoo Mail, then I wouldn’t have to use Gmail at all.
I’d rather keep my gmail on gmail since their spam filter actually works. I haven’t seen a single spam message in my gmail inbox in over a year. I have to mark dozens of message every single day in my yahoo inbox.
very good i like it
Very nice, but it will be nicer when yahoo supports pop too, i.e. allow me to check my yahoo email using e.g. gmail.
Nice, but you can’t check your Yahoo email from Gmail or any other because you will have to PAY Yahoo for the privilege.
This is a nice feature, I’m glad Yahoo implemented SSL support for external POP3 accounts. While it does work, it is not automatic, ergo not as useful as it could be.
Three things that are keeping me from switching back to Yahoo Mail for full-time e-mail, not just coupon lists…
a) Full-time SSL support – dealbreaker.
b) IMAP, preferably with IDLE support. – Would be nice.
c) Automatic external POP3 checking – Would be really nice.
However, so I don’t get labeled a troll and show that I do use Yahoo Mail from time to time…. Here are three, no wait–five things I love about Yahoo Mail that no-one else does as well….
1) Ads are not based on your e-mail content.
2) Unlimited Storage
3) Push support for the iPhone that isn’t piggy-backed on Exchange.
4) Straight-up POP3, not like oddball Gmail where it downloads your Sent e-Mail along with your Inbox.
5) The disposable e-mail addressing for Plus accounts. Killer feature that Yahoo doesn’t evangelize nearly enough.
That’s all. Keep up the good work, i’m glad to see things are progressing.
I would love to come back and use Yahoo full-time but for now it’s my coupon and forum list collector. :-(
Why doesn’t Yahoo allow POP-access? It ‘s now restricted to plus users.
Both Hotmails and Gmail have this functionality already, so what’s Yahoo waiting for?
I tried setting up to receive a hotmail account in my yahoo account but it didn’t seem to work (emails sent to the hotmail account didnt arrive in my yahoo account).
I read somewhere hotmail does not support this. But in this post it says it does. How should I proceed?
Thanks!
ill consider this if you give us free pop3 so i can use my yahoo mail on my mac email client ‘mail’. why should i pay for mail plus, when gmail provides pop3 for free already? at the moment i have to do the inverse of what you are suggesting, which is to pull my yahoo into my gmail, just so i can use it on my mac.
Hi
Now I am experiancing one of my pet gripes regarding yahoo mail etc.
I am registered blind! just have a small amount of sight in one eye.. The text size and colours on this comment page are so small and dont respond to alteration . the font colours are so pale and thin they are very hard to distinguish!
surly a company like yahoo could incorperate a system of small buttons to just change font size and collour as some thoughtfull companies do..
Attaching Photos is also difficult to achieve due to the same problems If i am using my zoom and large text settings the attachment area on new mail is not visible(i am only seeing part of the page) so I have to undo all the settingsand hope i am doing the correct sequences.
It is difficult, but I am sure there are thousands experiencing the same difficultys.
Thanks for reading
Neil (Magoo)
Great new feature.
But what I really miss is the ability to use the external account’s SMTP-server to send mail (like in Gmail).
Using the “Yahoo way” to send mails from a different account the mails are often is considered as spam.
When will Yahoo finally support IMAP? Gmail and yahoo both support this. Yahoo is my favorite but this problem, checking multiple accounts, is a big reason for me to use Gmail and its external accounts feature and simply us imap to check Gmail (incl yahoo).
Yes! I had noticed some time ago that I was getting my messages downloaded from GMail via POP3. Thank you so much for that, it was one of the features that I waited more. To be perfect now, it would be nice if we could download messages automatically, without user intervention.
How about a calendar app for Android for my Droid? I am so tired of having to import my calendar into gmail to get it onto my Droid.
I cant’ see the screen shot. I tried to get gmail to come to my yahoo account but I’m not sure what they’re asking and I certainly can’t see the screen shot to get an idea
Good idea.
Is Yahoo mail going to support IMAP like GMail does? This would be very nice for Mac/iPad/iPhone users.
What do I think? This is incredibly lame….
You’re offering an email service that doesn’t support Desktop Client IMAP while at the same time it supports Push Email to mobile devices such as an iPhone? How does doing that make any kind of sense? Don’t you realize how easy it is for messages to get out of sync without IMAP support? It’s unusable…
Does it even matter to you that we don’t have Desktop Client IMAP support after months and months of waiting for it? Does Desktop Client IMAP support even make it up on the “whiteboard” over there at Yahoo Mail as a feature that people have asked you for repeatedly?
So in the context of this feature, why on earth would I want to take AOL Mail or GMail, if I had accounts there, which both support Desktop Client IMAP, and have everything go through Yahoo Mail which doesn’t support Desktop Client IMAP?….
When’s that Desktop IMAP Client support coming? Still can’t tell us, right?
Why would we pop our mail into Yahoo – when Yahoo (unlike Gmail or even Hotmail), won’t let us pop mail out. Talk about lock in! Get with the program Yahoo.
Great!
Now, how about allowing Gmail, Microsoft Outlook or Mac OS Mail users to have Yahoo Mail via POP or IMAP for FREE. Just like others allow you to do.
It’s not the 90s anymore and just having Yahoo on the iPhone is not cool anymore.
What about you allow the opposite and let Yahoo! mail users pop their emails for free? You know, just like the other providers allow.
I’m a long time Yahoo mail user/fan and have now been a Mac user for a few years. I like to use Mac Mail for some of the integrated features but use Yahoo Mail plus most of the time. Especially to manage folders. Why doesn’t Yahoo come out with IMAP support like Google has for Mac Mail? It would make the Mac/Yahoo experience much better.
I’m using yahoo mail plus and I see with sadness as Google with Gmail carries out launches of new features constantly.
For example the translation of emails and many other useful features.
Because Yahoo does not release new features? Because they have a simple mail notifier?
They have a good product but in my opinion is totally sub used.